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Yale Center Beijing and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University jointly invite you to a conversation with Dr. Katerina Clark on "Life of Emi Siao (1896-1983), Author of Mao Zedong: His Childhood & Youth".
Event Description
Professor Clark’s talk will review the career of the poet and revolutionary activist Emi Siao, a Chinese communist and childhood friend of Mao, who lived in both France and Soviet Russia and was connected with leftists from all over the world. In the early 1920s he studied in the Comintern’s Communist University for Toilers of the East, which trained international revolutionaries. After graduation, he led insurgents in the Shanghai workers’ suburb of Chapei in 1927. Like several other Chinese communist leaders, after the Shanghai debacle he turned from politics to literature; from 1930 he operated in Moscow as a writer, and as the broker for publishing Chinese works in Comintern-sponsored literary journals. He returned to China (Yan'an) in 1939 and remained there. His book about Mao’s childhood and youth became a classic.
Event Language
The language of the event will be English.
Registration and Payment
Ticket: RMB 15 for students; RMB 60 for others.
Please note: All attendee information collected by Yale Center Beijing through the event registration form on this website, or by any other means, will be kept strictly confidential. Yale Center Beijing will never distribute, sell, license, or otherwise make available for any purpose, any attendee information to any third party, unless otherwise required by law.
Event Description
Professor Clark’s talk will review the career of the poet and revolutionary activist Emi Siao, a Chinese communist and childhood friend of Mao, who lived in both France and Soviet Russia and was connected with leftists from all over the world. In the early 1920s he studied in the Comintern’s Communist University for Toilers of the East, which trained international revolutionaries. After graduation, he led insurgents in the Shanghai workers’ suburb of Chapei in 1927. Like several other Chinese communist leaders, after the Shanghai debacle he turned from politics to literature; from 1930 he operated in Moscow as a writer, and as the broker for publishing Chinese works in Comintern-sponsored literary journals. He returned to China (Yan'an) in 1939 and remained there. His book about Mao’s childhood and youth became a classic.
Event Language
The language of the event will be English.
Registration and Payment
Ticket: RMB 15 for students; RMB 60 for others.
Please note: All attendee information collected by Yale Center Beijing through the event registration form on this website, or by any other means, will be kept strictly confidential. Yale Center Beijing will never distribute, sell, license, or otherwise make available for any purpose, any attendee information to any third party, unless otherwise required by law.
